Teacher Programmes 教師活動
Teacher Programmes 教師活動
Who are our teachers? They are willing and committed learners. Museums should provide resources for those who are eager to learn and, at the same time, serve as a platform for everyone to exchange knowledge and perspectives. This exchange allows us to connect and inspire each other in our lifelong learning.
Our regular Teacher Programmes for primary and secondary schools include M+ Collections Tours and school-wide Professional Development Workshops. With emphasis on diverse learning experiences in visual culture, the programmes encourage teachers to venture outside their campuses and into new surroundings. They can experiment with learning in a museum setting where minds and ideas collide. M+ will also be holding regular Teacher’s Day for teachers to learn about the latest exhibitions and teaching programmes in the museum prior to the student visits.
More details will be available later on this webpage. Please subscribe to the M+ School Programme E-newsletter for latest updates.
Teacher Professional Development Workshops
The workshops are structured around two themes, with The Multi-perspective Thinker and Learner as theme one, addressing the role of the educator and are designed for school-wide participation. Theme two will be launched in the 2024/25 School Year, details will be announced on Teacher’s Day in July 2024. All themes are open to school principals and teachers. Previous experience in artistic practices is not required. Participants are encouraged to explore the museum in their own ways and pace by engaging in activities that would best suit their preference while learning in a museum setting.
This programme can be credited toward the Continuing Professional Development programme.
Date: Tuesdays to Fridays from 3 October 2023 to 14 July 2024, except for public holidays
Time: 10:15 or 14:30
Duration: 165 min.
Language: Cantonese or English
Fee: HKD 9,000 per group (max. 75 participants per group)
The museum can accommodate a maximum of seventy-five teachers during each timeslot. The programme fee includes the General Admission ticket (original price HKD 120) for each participant to access the designated galleries. If the number of participants exceeds seventy-five or special arrangement is required, the teacher-in-charge should contact us via email at [email protected].
This programme is open for booking throughout the year on a first-come, first-served basis.
➔ Book now for the Teacher Professional Development Workshops
There is often more than one answer to a question in life. The museum is an open environment, where different perspectives and mindsets coincide, and everyone can freely engage in different ideas in their own ways. The museum is more than a place to collect and exhibit works of art. Our sparks of creativity are what enliven the museum.
This programme follows the theme of multi-perspective thinking. It consists of the Creative Interpretation Experience and Monoprint Making. Participants will join museum educators and local artists to think out of the box and reach beyond conventional boundaries. They will reflect on their perceptions and feelings and embrace the new experiences that lie ahead.
As a lead-in to the activities, a writing session will guide participants to write down their instinctive thoughts after viewing an exhibit from the M+ Collections. The responses will be added to a range of previous interpretations, turning them into material for future museum tours. In the next activity, M+ Educators will invite participants to take an arts quiz, which will suggest an M+ Collections exhibit for the participant to visit. A customised exhibition guide will be available, with which participants can explore the M+ Collections from a new perspective. Participants may also visit The Cabinet, a space consisting of forty movable panels. An interactive digital game will be the medium for participants to share their thoughts on the collections. After the activities, local illustrator and artist Kinchoi Lam will invite participants to his Monoprint Workshop, where they will make their own prints using simple tools. When the teachers bring their artwork back to their school campuses, they are reminded that learning and exploration extends beyond the traditional gallery experience. This programme prompts teachers to ponder questions to which there are no standard answers.
The participants’ willingness to learn helps enrich the museum’s collections and curatorial expertise. Their exchange with museum educators and artists brings forth deeper questions—what can we learn at the museum apart from what it intends to teach us? We believe that if we are willing to ask questions and respond without drawing on existing knowledge both inside and outside the museum, it will foster multi-perspective thinking in our learning community.
About the Artist
Kinchoi Lam is a Hong Kong artist and picture book maker. His work combines traditional printmaking and digital collage. Through his observation and imagination, Lam brings everyone with him to travel around the world and explore different cultures and stories in life. With his first picture book, Little Big Tram, he won the First Prize in the Creative Writing in Chinese Award in 2016, and also the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Award in 2019. His other illustration works have won various local and oversea awards, and have been included in exhibitions.
Participating teachers select a card based on their preferred colour to explore the relationships between their personalities and selected works from the M+ Collections. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Participating teachers express their thoughts and feelings about an artwork or design object from the M+ Collections with automatic writing, a creative way to track our thoughts with text. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Participating teachers draw connections between the works from the M+ Collections and their living experiences inside the galleries to deepen their understanding on the creative practices of artists and designers. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Participating teachers visit The Cabinet to participate in a digital interactive experience. By comparing images and text, they find inspirations, connections, and surprises from this creative, interpretative game. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
After a visit in the galleries, M+ Educators and participating teachers find similarities between the works from the M+ Collections and their teaching and learning experiences. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
A local artist introduces participating teachers to creative ideas to expand their imagination on teaching. The printmaking activity during this school year is co-designed by Hong Kong artist Lam Kin Choi and M+ Educator. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Participating teachers use simple printmaking tools to create a message card for students. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Teachers create message cards with simple printmaking tools. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
M+ Educators review the learning outcomes of the programme with participating teachers through their creative outputs. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Teachers watch creative video clips and read books related to teaching and learning at The Forum, Learning Hub. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
This programme will be launched in the 2024/25 School Year. Details will be announced on Teacher’s Day in July 2024.
M+ Collections Tours
The M+ Collections Tours for teachers are led by our museum curators or experienced educators. We encourage participants to embrace a multi-perspective appreciation of the myriad possibilities that lie within visual culture. The experience is based upon the actual exhibits in the galleries with a shared learning perspective, whereby the teachers will see beyond the textbooks as the source of knowledge and teaching. As they tour around the gallery space inside the museum, the teachers will acquire in-depth knowledge of six to seven exhibits on display, with content covering aspects of visual arts, moving images, design and architecture. This is the opportunity for teachers to seek the nexus between creative arts and teaching, while developing sensitivity and the critical appreciation for the creative process of the artists or designers. This is intended to broaden the horizons in student learning.
We welcome teachers to come for a pre-visit before their students come to M+. Schools may submit special requests when they make booking for the school visits. We will consider the feasibility of your requests and design guided tours that suit your specific needs.
This programme can be credited toward the Continuing Professional Development programme.
Date: Tuesdays to Fridays from 14 February to 12 July 2024, except for public holidays
Time: 10:00, 11:15, 14:30 or 16:00
Duration: 60 min.
Language: Cantonese or English
Fee: HKD 2,400 per group (max. 25 participants per group)
The museum can accommodate a maximum of seventy-five teachers each timeslot. The tour will be conducted in groups. Each group is limited to a maximum of twenty-five teachers. If there are more than twenty-five teachers participating during the same timeslot, M+ Educators will divide them into smaller groups. The programme fee includes General Admission ticket (original price HKD 120) for each participant to access the designated galleries.
If teachers would like to purchase 20 or more tickets for self-guided visits in the M+ galleries, please book the tickets through our Online Application Form.
This programme is open for booking throughout the year on a first-come, first-served basis.
➔ Book now for the M+ Collections Tours
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Teacher’s Day
This programme is available in two sessions for primary and secondary school teachers. It is recommended for arts education and life-wide learning coordinators, and visual arts panel teachers. Our learning curators will first introduce the current exhibitions and the latest content of M+ School Programmes at the Forum. Then teachers will head over to the galleries and participate in the small group guided tour led by the curators in order to look at the selected M+ Collections covered in the School Programmes.
The introductory session will be held in Cantonese with simultaneous interpretation in English for teachers in need. Guided tours will be available in Cantonese and English.
Successful registration will be given free access to all the galleries on the event day. Ticket purchase is not required.
Quotas for each school are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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The first Teacher’s Day in the 2023/24 School Year has ended in October 2023. The next Teacher’s Day will be held in July 2024, introducing the content of M+ School Programmes for the 2024/25 School Year, and the teaching resources for Special Exhibition I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture (June 2024 to January 2025).
Application method will be announced in early 2024. Please subscribe to the M+ School Programme E-newsletter for latest updates.
Image at top: Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voice, M+, Hong Kong
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